Lori Gottlieb on Changing Your Life by Changing the Story
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 1 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Lori Gottlieb about the profound effect that stories have on our lives, why we are all unreliable narrators, how we can make real steps toward positive change by practicing self-compassion, understanding other peoples’ experiences by listening to their stories, and more.
Lorr Gottlieb is a physiotherapist, writer, speaker, and podcast host whose work focuses on the role that stories and storytelling take in shaping our mental landscape. She obtained an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and a Masters of Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and she is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She published the New York Times bestseller, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone in 2019, which she repurposed into a journal version in 2022 titled Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Journal. She also writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column for The Atlantic and is the co-host of the iHeart Radio podcast "Dear Therapists." Her TED Talk was one of the top most-watched talks of 2019. Her work can be found on her website lorigottlieb.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation |
| 0:09.8 | inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues |
| 0:15.1 | of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper |
| 0:21.2 | dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how |
| 0:28.7 | these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time. |
| 0:36.2 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:41.4 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most |
| 0:47.3 | importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:51.7 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I'm recording |
| 1:02.8 | this and then getting ready to head to the airport. I'm going to San Francisco and then Seattle, |
| 1:09.7 | where I'll be seeing the one and only rapper green. We're doing these two live events together. |
| 1:14.1 | Some of you listening to this may have been in the audience. If you missed out, we'll probably |
| 1:19.2 | end up running clips of it on YouTube and other places as well. But I'm, that's what I'm |
| 1:26.2 | mentally preparing for right now. Robert and I have been preparing. It's just, it's a crazy, |
| 1:31.1 | it's crazy to me. If I think about where I was in my life in 2005, 2006, I guess when I met |
| 1:39.4 | Robert that we all these years later, we'd be doing an event on stage together. In one case, |
| 1:46.8 | I interviewed Timothy Egan on the podcast recently. It hasn't come out yet, but he was saying that |
| 1:53.2 | the theater that Robert and I are performing in is a theater that Nirvana performed in multiples. |
| 1:58.9 | I don't know. It's just crazy. So just practicing a moment of gratitude and gratitude to all of you |
| 2:04.9 | for listening. So thank you. When I think of the Stoic's, I do, I think they would have been great |
| 2:11.6 | therapists. And that's what Epic Titus is doing with the students. He's asking kind of provocative |
| 2:18.4 | questions that are getting them to think about things. Mark is really, this is sort of performing |
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